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Jake Wright
@bcnjake.bsky.social
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Philosopher, husband, dad, teacher, "leftist," potty-mouth, and pedagogical chaos agent. Aspiring to be the C.M. Punk of higher education. Distinguished, or so I'm told. he/him
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 17d
"There's no ethical use case for AI in the classroom" has become my personal Carthago delenda est.

I even take time to explain to my students how we won't use it in class because it's dehumanizing. To their credit, they seem to get it.

CETERUM AUTEM CENSEO INTELLIGENTIA ARTIFICIALIS ESSE DELENDAM
AI is dehumanizing I’ve saved the most important part for last. AI is dehumanizing. Using AI means saying that the people involved in what you’re trying to do don’t matter. Because AI platforms are built on theft, using AI says that the people whose work is being stolen don’t matter. If I used AI to grade your work, which is now possible with Canvas integrations, I would be saying your work is not worth taking seriously enough to read myself. It’s saying you don’t matter enough to take seriously. A world where AI grades AI generated submissions from an AI generated assignment is not a world where people and the work they do matters, and I refuse to live in that world. The dehumanizing aspect of AI is even worse when you consider the effects of AI on you as a student. Using AI as a substitute for doing the work yourself robs you of your voice. It prevents you from developing your own sense of who you are, what you believe, and how you express that in your own unique way and replaces it with statistically generated slop literally incapable of forming a novel thought. In a world that works to dehumanize us every day—to say who we are and the relationships we form don’t matter—I don’t want to add to that work. I don’t want to do this because the relationships you form matter. Your voice matters. You matter. In 19th Century England, a group of artisan weavers banded together to fight against mechanization. Tools like the water frame and spinning jenny allowed factory owners to produce a worse product at a price so low that the quality of the finished product didn’t matter. These artisans, the Luddites, weren’t opposed to technology. They were opposed to technology dehumanizing people and denying them dignity. Like the Luddites, I’m not opposed to technology and embrace it when it makes our lives better. But like the Luddites, I have an obligation to resist technology that dehumanizes people in my community, and I think AI does that. So, there’s no AI in this class.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 1h
Also, if shame doesn’t work, The Hague might.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 4h
“Despite predictably breaking the law…”

Fixed it for you, @sciam.bsky.social
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
www.scientificamerican.com
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 4h
Hope you’ve got the Boss queued up!
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 4h
This does make you wonder: Is the Sexy Sax Man Antifa?
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h
Same time that Pritzker is telling city and state officials to start arresting and prosecuting federal officials for assaulting Illinois citizens.

OT1H, this is clearly really bad.

OTOH, our federalized design might end up being an absolute godsend.
JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 18h
There are much worse reasons to do something than “Will it make Stephen Miller angry?”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d
They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 18h
For the first time ever, I’m sad I don’t live in Emmer’s district.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 1d
Quick question: What inflatable costumes are people wearing to the protests on Saturday?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d
ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 1d
Things Fall Apart is bad because Okonkwo is a terrible, unsympathetic protagonist.

Tess of the D’Urbervilles is terrible because it’s basically torture porn.
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 1d
NON SERVIAM
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d
The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a source
Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT
The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 1d
diMeTrOdOn
a woman making a funny face in front of a red curtain and a sign that says dtf
Alt: A creepy lady in a yellow dress with doll hands.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 1d
I’m trying to think back to my AP Honors English class in HS, and I can name five novels/plays we read *off the top of my head*. I took that class in 97-98.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 1d
Tommy Tutone is singing from INSIDE THE BATHROOM. Otherwise, how could he know Jennie's number was 867-5309?
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 1d
So what I'm hearing is you might as well buy the big stuff.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 2d
If I, say, have attended several of these protests and have not yet been paid, can you put me in touch with an attorney who will help me receive the compensation I’m apparently owed? Is there a possible class action? Is this purely an HR matter at Soros-Antifa, Inc? I have questions!
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 2d
It’s the literacy equivalent of watching this video and thinking you’ve seen Shrek.
Shrek but every time he takes a STEP it gets 5% faster
YouTube video by MrMemenea
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 2d
Was I actually looking for December 12? Possibly! But I definitely found this day.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 2d
ANOUNCEMENT: I am proud to say that after much searching, I have discovered October 13. As the official discoverer of a day no one in history had any knowledge of, I declare today to be FUCK CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS DAY, as is my right as the person who found the totally new thing.
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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 2d
lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day
AJ West • 1h Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government Reply 6
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 2d
As always, the answers are "no," and "even if we did, there were people at the time saying that what was happening was wrong, so trying to wave problems away via 'standards of the time' erases those people from the narrative."
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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 2d
Relevant today, as always.
Don't We Have To Judge People By The Standards Of Their Time?
Many who reach for this cliché want it to function as a shield against judgment altogether.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 2d
Just now seeing from social media that today is Columbus Day. The fact that I needed to be reminded that it's Columbus Day feels like progress, though now that it is, I'd like to take a brief moment to say FUCK CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 2d
The problem is you don’t actually know what’s going on. Frog of war and all.
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alboo @captainacab.airbud.website · 2d
gotta say i can’t help but pay attention to the protesting frogs in portland. the story is so ribbeting
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 2d
I’m not saying now he’s a bullshitter. I’ve been saying he’s a bullshitter in print as part of my job for at least six years now.
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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 2d
The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL.

It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d
Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d
Portland, you magnificent weirdos
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